A Megabus was stopped and evacuated on the M6 toll road today, as a passenger saw vapour coming from someone else's bag. All 48 passengers got to sit on the tarmac for an hour and a half. I bet they're glad it wasn't pouring with rain.

A bit strange that they tackled him and instead of moving him away from the torchbearer (though the boy wasn't very near him or heading towards him as far as I can see), flung him down in front of a moving car.But I suppose it's very difficult to have control over where you throw someone when they come up unexpectedly.

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<TBO> I'm pleased that here in Scotland we seem well away from it all. I'm just waiting for the announcement that everyone who's unemployed in Glasgow will be forced to attend the footie matches at Hamden to make up the crowds, apathy here? Yes!

<TBO> I'm pleased that here in Scotland we seem well away from it all. I'm just waiting for the announcement that everyone who's unemployed in Glasgow will be forced to attend the footie matches at Hamden to make up the crowds, apathy here? Yes!

Well, I live by Hampden and they've erected the most big-ass fuck-off CCTV cameras you have never seen right on my street. I'm also half-expecting to get a dawn-raid bundling me into a back of a van to be forced to watch this football bollocks that only 5 people have been ridiculous enough to buy tickets for...

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<TBO> I'm pleased that here in Scotland we seem well away from it all. I'm just waiting for the announcement that everyone who's unemployed in Glasgow will be forced to attend the footie matches at Hamden to make up the crowds, apathy here? Yes!

Well, I live by Hampden and they've erected the most big-ass fuck-off CCTV cameras you have never seen right on my street. I'm also half-expecting to get a dawn-raid bundling me into a back of a van to be forced to watch this football bollocks that only 5 people have been ridiculous enough to buy tickets for...

In some quarters there seems to be some criticism that the people employed for security are unemployed - "some workers had been unemployed for months or years"

What do they really expect, people who are employed to hand in their notice so they can work for some crepe security company on 12 hour shifts for crepe money for all of a couple of weeks or so?

Where did they expect to find crack security people in such numbers for such a short contract, and those that they have employed know that it's just a two week gig and are hardly going to be motivated beyond the bare minimum

in anticipation of the world cup, our city has just installed security cameras EVERYWHERE. the rumors are they will be used for remotely-issued traffic tickets before and after the cup [you! talking on the cell phone in your car! $500 ticket!] i'd be nervous if we had enough police to do the kind of interventions mentioned ^^, but we don't. Maybe by ^cup time we'll have more cops, if we don't throw all the money into stadium-sized money pits....